Famous People with Name Morris

Morris Swadesh            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Swadesh: was an American linguist. He was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts to Russian Jewish parents from whom he learned Yiddish. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Yale University, where he studied with Edward Sapir. During the Second World War he worked on military projects to compile reference materials for Burmese, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. In May 1949 Swadesh was fired by the City College of New York as the result of accusations that he was a Communist, making him one of a number of anthropologists to fall victim to harassment by anti-communists during the McCarthy Era. He continued to work in the United States with limited funding from the American Philosophical Society until 1954 when he took a position as Professor at the National School of Anthropology and History (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia) in Mexico City, where he remained until his death.

Morris Herman DeGroot            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Herman DeGroot: was an American statistician. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Professor DeGroot graduated from Roosevelt University and earned master's and doctor's degrees from the University of Chicago. Professor DeGroot joined Carnegie Mellon in 1957 and became a Univ

Morris Nettles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Nettles: is a retired professional baseball player who played 2 seasons for the California Angels of Major League Baseball.

Morris Skip Strode            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Skip Strode: is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During Strode's career he won 1 doubles title. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 127 in 1983 and a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 47 in 1983.

Morris P. Bodnar            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris P. Bodnar: was a member of the Canadian House of Commons at the Saskatoon—Dundurn electoral district from 1993 to 1997. He is a lawyer by career. Bodnar won election to the 35th Canadian Parliament with the Liberal party in the 1993 federal election. He was defeated by Reform party candidate Allan Kerpan in the Blackstrap electoral district in the 1997 federal election. Bodnar was also unsuccessful in the 2000 federal election when he attempted to return to Parliament in the Saskatoon—Humboldt riding.

James Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Morris: was a businessman, banker and political figure in Canada West.In 1836, he began working at a bank in Brockville. In 1838, he was appointed to a commission which administered funds raised for canal building. He was involved in the founding of Queen's College, later Queen's University, at Kingston. He represented Leeds County in the Legislative Assemblies of Upper Canada and the Province of Canada from 1837 to 1844. In that year, he was appointed to the Legislative Council. In 1851, he became the first Canadian Postmaster General, also serving on the Board of Railway Commissioners and representing the government on the board of the Grand Trunk Railway. He was speaker of the Legislative Council from 1853 to 1854 and in 1858. He served as receiver general from 1862 until 1863, when he suffered a debilitating stroke.

Joseph Henry Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Henry Morris: was a politician and municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta. In Lethbridge, he was manager for general merchant J. H. Cavanagh until 1895 and also served on the Lethbridge City Council as an alderman and as president of the Lethbridge Board of Trade. He married Margaret Drummond Jardine in June 1895; the pair would have four children.

William Dowler Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Dowler Morris: was mayor of Ottawa, Canada in 1901. He was born in County Leitrim, Ireland in 1857 and came to Canada in 1877. He became involved in the oil, coal and real estate businesses; he also owned a brickyard. Morris was first elected to city council in 1892. He was forced to resign as mayor after being convicted of drinking after hours at an Ottawa hotel, an offence under the liquor license act. During his term as mayor, he was instrumental in persuading philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to donate funds for the main branch of the Ottawa Public Library; the city made a commitment to allocate funds for the ongoing upkeep of the library. However, the mayor of the time, James A. Ellis, chose not to invite Morris to the 1906 opening. Morris also served as a transport officer in World War I at the age of 60.

Charles Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Morris: was a surveyor, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented King's County from 1761 to 1770 and Sunbury County from 1770 to 1784 in the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia.

Joseph (Joe) Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph (Joe) Morris: was a Canadian trade unionist mostly noted as the president of the Canadian Labour Congress in the 1970s.An anti-Communist in the union movement, Morris was active in opposing Communist Party activists in the IWA when he returned from serving in World War II and became the IWA's regional president for Western Canada in 1953.